Circle | tea towel

Circle tea towel is a tea towel designed by Dutch designers Karel, Klaartje and Diederik Martens, who together work under the name Martens & Martens.

Martens &  Martens is a family brand that has a history of graphic design
by Karel Martens and product designer Klaartje Martens.

Circle is available in two colors.

- Bio cotton
- 65 x 70 cm.
- Produced in The Netherlands.

Karel Martens (1939) is a Dutch freelance graphic designer, specialized in typography

Martens was born in Mook en Middelaar in 1939 and graduated from the Arnhem Academy of art and industrial arts of the Netherlands in 1961 where he studied fine arts. He did not study graphic design because it was not considered a career at the time and therefore, did not exist as its own course of study. In school he took many classes such as painting, sculpture making, illustration, and publicity. Today he is recognized as one of the most influential practitioners in graphic design.

He started teaching at ArtEZ in Arnhem in 1977. In 1998 he, along with Wigger Bierma, founded the Werkplaats Typografie, a renowned Masters course for typography in Arnhem, Netherlands. Martens’s practice consists of designing and teaching. He is responsible for the design of architectural magazine OASE, in collaboration with current and former students. And he has designed books for publisher SUN in many varying formats. His work has also included designing coins, postage stamps and telephone cards for the Dutch government.

Klaartje Martens (1965) is a textile and accessory designer based in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Klaartje Martens graduated in 1992 from the Fashion Design department of the AKI, the Academy for Art and Industry in Enschede. She works as an independent designer and teaches at the ArtEZ Product Design department in Arnhem. She designs her own scarves, bags and merchandising.

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